Oil Can Boyd

Oil Can Boyd

Dennis Ray "Oil Can" Boyd (born October 6, 1959) is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. Boyd played for the Boston Red Sox (1982–89), Montreal Expos (1990–91), and Texas Rangers (1991). He batted and threw right-handed. Boyd currently lives in East Providence, Rhode Island, with his wife, daughter Tala, and son Dennis. His nickname comes from his beer-drinking days in his hometown of Meridian, Mississippi, where beer is referred to as "oil." Boyd had one of the more colorful personalities of his generation and a quotable outlook that made him memorable long after his career ended.

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    Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    Unhappy is the man for evermair
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    But twice unhappier is he, I lairn,
    That feidis in his hairt a mad desire
    And follows on a woman thro the fire,
    Led by a blind and teachit by a bairn.
    —Mark Alexander Boyd (1563–1601)